Birds of Ecuador

 

Birds of Ecuador

Mindo Cloud Forest Reserve, North Andes, Amazon Jungle, Galapagos, Pasachoa, Paramour Forest

August and September, 2008 

1.       Croaking Ground Dove

2.       White Tipped Dove

3.       American Kestrel

4.       Grasshopper Sparrow

5.       White Winged Sparrow

6.       White Banded Swallow

7.       White Bellied Swift

8.       White Tipped Swift

9.       Chimney Swift

10.   White Collared Swift

11.   Fork-tailed Palm Swift

12.   Pink Throated Picard

13.   Vermilion Flycatcher

14.   Crested Flycatcher

15.   Little Hermit Hummingbird

16.   Rufous-tailed hummingbird

17.   Green crowned brilliant Hummingbird

18.   Sword-billed hummingbird

19.   Buff-tailed coronet Hummingbird

20.   Green Thorn-tail Hummingbird

21.   Collared Inca Hummingbird

22.   Booted Rocket-tail Hummingbird

23.   Inka Hummingbird Hummingbird

24.   Black-tailed hummingbird

25.   Green-tailed Trainbeater Hummingbird

26.   Esmeraldas Woodstar Hummingbird

27.   Giant Hummingbird

28.   Sparkling Violetear Hummingbird

29.   Green Crowned Brilliant Hummingbird

30.   Rufous Collared Sparrow

31.   Common Pigeon

32.   Ruddy Pigeon

33.   Golden Quetzal

34.   Southern Yellow Grosbeak

35.   Martens

36.   Tropical Kingbird

37.   Aguila Andina Eagle

38.   Great Thrush

39.   Black-billed Thrush

40.   Brown Thrush

41.   Bush Tanager

42.   Palm Tanager

43.   Blue-winged mountain tanager

44.   Opal-Rumped Tanager

45.   Blue Grey tanager

46.   Magpie Tanager

47.   Pygmy Owl

48.   Snowy Egret

49.   Cattle Egret

50.   Great Egret

51.   Rufescent Tiger Heron

52.   Green Heron

53.   Silvery Grebe

54.   Sungrebe

55.   Hoatzin

56.   Horned Screamer

57.   White-cheeked Pintail

58.   Grey Winged Trumpeter

59.   Greater Yellow Headed Vulture

60.   Black Vulture

61.   Snail Kite

62.   Double Toothed Kite

63.   Forest Hawk

64.   Double-toothed Kite

65.   Roadside Hawk

66.   Cobalt Winged Parakeet

67.   Blue and Yellow Macaw

68.   Scarlet Macaw

69.   White Eyed Parakeet

70.   Maroon-tailed parakeet

71.   Black Headed Parrot

72.   Squirrel Cuckoo

73.   Greater Ani

74.   Smooth-billed Ani

75.   Ringed Kingfisher

76.   Green Kingfisher

77.   Green and Rufous Kingfisher

78.   Amazon Kingfisher

79.   Black Fronted Nunbird

80.   Swallow Winged Puffbird

81.   Scarlet-crowned barbet

82.   Many banded Aracari

83.   Pale Mandibled Aracari

84.   Chestnut Mandibled Toucan (Choco)

85.   White Throated toucan

86.   Spot Breasted Woodpecker

87.   Cream coloured Woodpecker

88.   Black-cheeked woodpecker

89.   Streak headed woodcreeper

90.   Streaked Xenops

91.   Black-necked cotinga

92.   Red-crested cotinga

93.   Lesser Kiskadee

94.   Yellow Rumped Cacique

95.   Crested Oropendola

96.   Russet-backed Orpendola

97.   Red-Capped Cardinal

98.   Magnificent Frigatebird

99.   Brown Pelican

100.            Lava Gull

101.            Blue-Footed Booby

102.            Wimbrel

103.            Spotted Sandpiper

104.            Thrush-like Wren

105.            Ecuadorean Thrush

106.            Spectacled Redstart

107.            Beryl-spangled tanager

108.            Golden Tanager

109.            Green Ibis

110.            Great-tailed grackle

111.            Red-capped cardinal

112.            Galapagos penguin

113.            Galapagos hawk

114.            Waved albatross

115.            Red-billed tropicbird

116.            Masked booby

117.            Nascar booby

118.            Lava gull

119.            Swallow-tailed gull

120.            Greater flamingo

121.            American oystercatcher

122.            Galapagos dove

123.            Large-billed flycatcher

124.            Galapagos mockingbird

125.            Yellow warbler

126.            Cactus finch

127.            Sharp-beaked ground finch

128.            Warbler finch

129.            Small ground finch

130.            Large-billed ground finch

131.            Black-necked stilt

132.            Wandering tattler

133.            Brown Noddy tern

134.            Tsean-tsean

135.            White-necked condor

136.            Pallid dove

137.            Yellow-headed parrots

138.            Crested flycatcher

139.            Vermilion flycatcher

 

We are most happy with the amount of birds we saw.  However, apparently there are 3,200 species of birds in Ecuador, so we have a lot of birding to do.